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Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by mastermage »

krior wrote: post #19
jonym wrote: post #14

the opinion you didn't ask for: avoid admin UIs... at best they make you lazy, at worst a security nightmare

I just want to check from my phone how my home server is doing. Maybe someone else gets a perverse pleasure out of catting /proc/meminfo but I don't understand the need to make things more complicated than necessary.

this exactly, is something alot of people on hackernews don't understand. Yes when you want to have the power you go in by ssh. But unlike some people I am not terminally on my thinkpad from 2010. And sometimes Its enough to just get a quick monitoring glance.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by dwedge »

dice wrote: post #47
hosh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the technical assessment I have for hiring new platform engineers involves troubleshooting a service hosted in a headless Linux vm. Troubleshooting and fluency on the command line are among what I consider core skills. Being able to dig through abstraction layers is not just essential for when things go wrong, they are essential for building infrastructure, and really tells you whether an architecture is fit…

One of my favorite interview questions: "Here are some SSH credentials. What does this system do?" Sometimes there aren't any docs. Sometimes the docs are wrong. It's important to be able to establish what the actual running situation is.

I went for a senior sysadmin interview role and they asked me to debug a website in the browser that was only visible on localhost, ssh was available.

They asked me to double check that part because they assumed I just hadn't done that part, because apparently I was the first person who didn't need help with an SSH tunnel.

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by 9dev »

mrlinx wrote: post #79
9dev wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going for a shameless plug - I am working on an observability dashboard for Docker Swarm: https://github.com/Radiergummi/cetacean Also works for a single node cluster. Maybe that’s closer to what you’re looking for.

can you please add some screenshots?

Yeah, fair point, I didn't get to that yet. Here's a bunch from my current development state:

https://imgur.com/a/KhgTg6Y

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by thunderbong »

I've used Cockpit and quite like it. Very clean way to get the full picture of the system.

However, I was wondering if there was any way to login using an SSH key rather than a password?

I could of course pipe it via SSH. But is there any way we can authenticate using SSH on the web?

Maybe someone here can help?

Re: Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Post by icar »

PSA: The file browser plugin can't move files (you need to copy, paste, and go back and delete the original file). You can't select multiple files without a keyboard. You can't upload multiple files at the same time. Mobile screen has lots of usability issues, specially with long paths or filenames.
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